Juhani Quotes

#1. Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I call for emotion and imagination amidst this chaos.

Juhani Peltonen

#2. While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

Howard Gardner

#3. Doubt: How can I know? Truth: How can you not?

A.D. Posey

#4. But no sooner had morning broken than he took hold of his whip and ceremoniously stepped out to address his slaves. Each blow was liberating, it was like unshaking proof of the great lie of God's existence.

Juhani Peltonen

#5. Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place.

Juhani Pallasmaa

#6. Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. The door handle is the handshake of the building.

Juhani Pallasmaa

#8. Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses

Juhani Pallasmaa

#9. Here is a truism. What you say about yourself matters very little, but what others say of you means the world.

Hugh Halter

#10. You know how Burger King often employs mentally handicapped people to wipe down tables at their restaurants? What those people are to Burger King, paralegals are to lawyers. It's the lowest job you can possibly get and still technically be considered in the legal profession

Michael Ian Black

#11. They all come innocent in court.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#12. Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman.

Gloria Ng

#14. A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.

Juhani Pallasmaa

#15. My brother acquired his first gun when he was very young, from a recently-fled drug dealer's residence. Now, he lived in a rural orange-grove area, and he shot at coyotes who killed his animals and at drug runners who used the groves for transport. Sometimes he joked that he only shot what moved.

Susan Straight

#16. Full purse makes no noise.

Juhani Peltonen

#17. I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

Juhani Pallasmaa

#18. It's having hope which requires having guts. So wear your heart on your sleeve and if it bleeds, let it, so long as it still beats.

Juhani Aho

#19. It's an obvious challenge, but the risk feels too big, the leap too grand, the future too unknown

Alex Rosa

#20. Women bond differently, and I don't think men understand that.

Julie Garwood